C or LabVIEW: CompactRIO

[whitetiger0990]

1) What is your team planning to use?
Not sure at this point. I know LabVIEW pretty well, and C very well, but I'm graduating after next year and I don't really want the C knowledge to die off.

2) What do you think will become the new standard?
LabVIEW. It's a very robust system and it'll be picked up.

3) What will most rookie teams pick next year?
LabVIEW. There will be a lot of documentation (more than previous) on how to use it. Plug fancy videos and everything. It's also easier to look at and trace. These things will prevail when it comes to a rookie team choosing.

4) Do you think FIRST will give us the standard LabVIEW, or will we have a customized interface for the CompactRIO?
They already give teams LabVIEW, I'm going to guess it'll be some addon for it so we can use FIRST functions in it. At least I hope. I don't want a dumbed down version of LabVIEW =(

5) We have some NXTs. Would programming them using LabVIEW be a good way to get some experience before next year's kickoff?
YES. What kind of a question is that? =p

6) Will there be any limitations to using LabVIEW? Will there be any features that are easily accessibly throught LabVIEW but require complex C? What are the main advantages/disadvantages?

Can't say. LabVIEW can seriously do pretty much anything C can. I've made really complicated things in LabVIEW because I couldn't think of an easy way to do it (and it'd have been easy in C), only to find later an easier way, or the function already existed. (I made a function to convert a unsigned to a signed.. I still don't know if such a function exists. When you use LabVIEW functions it truncates the number instead of making it negative, I think).